Samuel Waldo

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{{Infobox person

| name = Samuel Waldo

| image = Brigadier General Samuel Waldo.jpg

| caption = Brigadier General Samuel Waldo (c. 1748–1750) by Robert Feke

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1696|8|7}}

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, British America

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1759|5|23|1696|8|7}}

| death_place = near Bangor, Maine, British America

| resting_place = Fort Point, Cape Jellison, Maine (until 1760)
King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston (since)

| spouse = {{marriage|Lucy Wainwright|1722}}

| relatives = Lucy Flucker Knox (granddaughter)

| signature = Signature of Samuel Waldo.jpg

| module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes

| allegiance = File:Civil ensign of Great Britain (1707–1800).svg British America

| branch = {{flagicon|Massachusetts}}[[Massachusetts National Guard| Massachusetts Bay

Colonial Militia]]

| serviceyears = c.1742–1759

| rank = Brigadier-General

| battles = Siege of Louisbourg (1745)

| laterwork = named Mount Waldo

}}

Samuel Waldo (August 7, 1696 – May 23, 1759) was an American merchant, land speculator, army officer and politician in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.{{Cite book |last=Lincoln |first=Waldo |url=http://archive.org/details/genealogyofwaldo01linc |title=Genealogy of the Waldo family : a record of the descendants of Cornelius Waldo, of Ipswich, Mass., from 1647 to 1900 |date=1902 |publisher=Press of Charles Hamilton |location=Worcester, Mass. |pages=96–105}}

Biography

He was born in Boston, the son of Jonathan Waldo and Hannah Mason. In 1722, he married Lucy Wainwright.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ozNSzDNwaZMC&dq=Samuel%20Waldo%20born%201696&pg=PA956 Charles H. Browning, The American Historical Register; The Historical Register Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1895] In 1730, he purchased a 17th-century title to a large tract of land in Nova Scotia with the intent of establishing a colony there; the title did not stand up when he proposed this plan to the authorities in England. A one-time business partner of Colonel Thomas Westbrook, Waldo acquired a large tract of land between the Penobscot and Muscongus Rivers in what is now Maine where he settled Irish and German immigrants and purchased several slaves.

During King George's War, he served as brigadier-general in the reduction on Louisbourg Fortress in 1745 and served on the temporary council that administered the settlement until Peter Warren was named governor. In 1757, during the French and Indian War, he submitted a plan to William Pitt which served as a basis for the second capture of Louisbourg from the French the following year. Waldo died of apoplexy near present-day Bangor, Maine in 1759 while participating in a military expedition with Governor Thomas Pownall.{{cite DCB

| last = Rawlyk

| first = George A.

| authorlink =

| title = Waldo, Samuel

| encyclopedia = Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

| volume = 3

| url = http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/waldo_samuel_3E.html}} He was initially buried at Fort Pownall (at Cape Jellison), but his remains were transported to Boston in 1760 and interred at the King's Chapel Burying Ground.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Uf87AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA93 Collections of the Maine Historical Society]

The Maine towns of Waldo and Waldoboro, together with Waldo County, are named for their early proprietor.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9nEgAAAAIBAJ&pg=3417%2C2283219 | title=Many Maine towns bear names of military men | work=Lewiston Evening Journal | date=Apr 20, 1949 | accessdate=17 October 2015 | last=Chadbourne |first=Ava H. | pages=A-2}}

His son-in-law Thomas Flucker was royal secretary of Massachusetts and later Provincial Governor. His granddaughter, Lucy Flucker Knox, married Revolutionary War hero and founding father Henry Knox. The Knox family built the impressive Montpelier on Waldo's tract of land in Thomaston, Maine.

File:Robert Feke - Isaac Winslow - 42.424 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|Samuel Waldo son-in-law Isaac Winslow [1709-1777] by Robert Feke

File:Robert Feke - Portrait of a Woman - Google Art Project.jpg|Mrs. Lucy [Waldo] Winslow [https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1086&context=art-museum-exhibition-catalogs Portrait number 8] by Robert Feke

File:Lucy Flucker Knox Thatcher.png|Portrait of Lucy Knox's daughter, Lucy Flucker Knox Thatcher by Albert Gallatin Hoit

Samuel Waldo

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